Subject: Re: UVM on NetBSD/arm32
To: None <neil@causality.com>
From: None <kim@pvv.ntnu.no>
List: port-arm32
Date: 05/22/1998 15:37:53
> We have just finished debugging UVM on NetBSD/arm running on a Chaltech
> board and are pleased to say it works a treat. Swapping is no longer
> corrupting for a start :-) We're running a performance benchmark now.
> Booting if anything seems slightly faster. Mark's machine was running two
> gimps, an xterm and a massive XV (6MB) image all on a 16MB machine, and
> the computer was still usable whilst swapping which wasn't true before.
> Well done Chuck! :)

Sounds wonderful!

> I can start talking in more detail with Chuck about performance issues
> now, and start seriously having a go at pmap to work better with the UVM.
> 
> I'll do the RiscPC stuff needed in the next few days and hopefully Mark
> can get stuff merged back sometime soon.

Do you do that StrongARM bug fix with connected pages if page ends on LDM/LDR
instruction?

Kim0